warclub

See also: war club

English

Etymology

From war +‎ club.

Noun

warclub (plural warclubs)

1. A club used as a weapon of war by various indigenous peoples.
   • 1855 November 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Blessing the Corn-fields”, in The Song of Hiawatha, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC, page 175:

     Buried was the bloody hatchet, / Buried was the dreadful war-club, / Buried were all warlike weapons, / And the war-cry was forgotten.

Alternative forms

• war club

Translations

club used as a weapon of war

• Ojibwe: bagamaagan
• Polish: pałka (pl) f
• Portuguese: tacape (pt) m
• Unami: pahkàskinkwehikàn